. Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation . more recent times. It was not so very longsince a pope had allowed a king of Castile to take asepond wife on account of the sterility of his first,under the condition that, if he had no children bythe second within a specified time, he should returnagain to the first. After all, it was not the Refor-mation which first introduced curiosities into the lawof marriage. The expedient, however, which found most favourwith Henry VIII. and his advisers was that of settingup the claim of the Duke of Richmond. The pat-ent of his creation in 1525 gave him, m
. Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation . more recent times. It was not so very longsince a pope had allowed a king of Castile to take asepond wife on account of the sterility of his first,under the condition that, if he had no children bythe second within a specified time, he should returnagain to the first. After all, it was not the Refor-mation which first introduced curiosities into the lawof marriage. The expedient, however, which found most favourwith Henry VIII. and his advisers was that of settingup the claim of the Duke of Richmond. The pat-ent of his creation in 1525 gave him, much to QueenCatherines disgust, precedence over the PrincessMary; he was endowed with titles and offices which * Z. and P.^ iv., 4881 ; it was claimed that the Pope could legalisemarriages between brothers and sisters of the full blood { v., 468),and of course popes have often permitted marriages between auntsand nephews, uncles and nieces {cf. Canon Mason, Cranmer, p. 10). ^ L. and P.^ iv., 6627. Cal. of Spanish State Papers^ ii., 379,. QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN. AFTER THE PICTURE BY LuCAS CORNELEY, NOW IN THE POSSESSION OF THE EARL OF ROMNEY. BY PERMISSION OF THE EARL OF ROMNEY. 1533] The Divorce of Catherine 33 legitimate children of Henry VII. had enjoyed, andin 1527 the Spanish ambassador reported a schemefor making him King of Ireland.* In various nego-tiations for his marriage it was broadly hinted thathe might safely be regarded as the heir presumptiveof England, and Charles V. believed that the be-trothal of Mary to a French prince in 1527 was mainlydesigned to remove her from England and from theDuke of Richmonds path to the throne. Someyears later it was thought that the provision in theAct of Succession empowering Henry to leave thecrown by will was intended to facilitate its devolu-tion upon the Duke; andHbefore expressing disgustat so violent an expedient, it is well to rememberthat a century and a half later a considerable partyin England preferred the claim of an
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